• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People would do well to remember just how much Ronnie Raygun ruined this country and set us on the path to the loser that is donnie.

    Even now, you’ll see gaslighting from Enlightened Centrists and people on the supposed left that Iran/Contra was not really that bad, even if it is arguably far, far worse than Watergate. But Ronnie and Bush I were given a pass on it, since America was “exhausted” or some such bullshit the “liberal media” spun at the time.

    Of course, the right are utterly unhinged when it comes to ronnie, possibly only surpassed by donnie in their worship.

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      5 months ago

      People would do well to remember just how much Ronnie Raygun ruined this country and set us on the path to the loser that is donnie.

      Long before this article came out I was thinking about far the GOP has come between Ronald Reagan’s time and the sheer decadence and depravity of today’s GOP. Then I realized that the seeds of today’s GOP corruption went all the way back to Reagan. I remember Reagan defending Chief Justice Renquest’s daughter from a corruption scandal at the very opening of an otherwise legitimate nationwide TV address about a crisis. Reagan himself had appointed William Renquest to be Chief Justice. Janet Renquest later went on to have a bunch of other scandals.